We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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